Month January 2019
Ultrasound cases top 100 340

Ultrasound Case 073

A 29 year old woman presents with pelvic pain. You ultrasound her pelvis and notice an unusual appearance in the bladder.

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Cocaine-related Chest Pain

Cocaine is a recreational drug with sympathomimetic effects in additional to being a sodium channel blocker. Cocaine can induce acute coronary syndromes through vasoconstriction, atheroma rupture and/ or dissection

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Corrosive Ingestion

Corrosive ingestion may be life-threatening due to airway compromise or GI perforation, or due to agent-specific systemic toxicity.

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Cocaine Toxicity

Cocaine Toxicity potentially life-threatening sympathomimetic syndrome with sodium channel blockade.

CICM Exam Library 340

CICM SAQ 2015.1 Q12

You are called to urgently review a 73-year-old female who is ventilated following admission with severe community-acquired pneumonia. She had a tracheostomy five days ago. She has now acutely desaturated and developed high airway pressures.

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Sodium Channel Blocker Toxicity

AGENTS NB. phenytoin and sodium valproate do not usually present with features of sodium channel blockade in overdose. CLINICAL FEATURES INVESTIGATIONS SPECIFIC MANAGEMENT AND TRIGGERS FOR INTERVENTION References and Links

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Sodium Valproate Overdose

Sodium valproate is a commonly used anti-epileptic drug, that come sin standard and enteric coated forms. Toxicity is characterised by metabolic failure, resulting in multi-organ dysfunction and cerebral edema

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Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Retention in COPD

Excessive oxygen administration can lead to hypercapnic respiratory failure in some COPD patients. COPD patients with more severe hypoxemia are at higher risk of CO2 retention from uncontrolled O2 administration